CVE-2005-1783: W.m.r. Simpson Bookreview

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

BookReview beta 1.0 allows remote attackers to obtain the path of the web server via certain parameters to search.htm, possibly due to a search[string] parameter with a missing value or an incorrect submit[type] value, which reveals the path in the resulting error message. NOTE: it is not clear whether BookReview is available to the public. If not, then it should not be included in CVE.

Affected products

• W.m.r. Simpson Bookreview: version beta_1.0 only

Published 2005-05-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.